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JICA has underscored the importance of including disaster risk reduction in the basic education curriculum, reports Manila Bulletin. 'The new generation is exposed to many disaster risks and experiences, particularly during typhoon Yolanda. It’s crucially important to help shape their thinking and preparedness towards natural disasters so they will be responsible and ready during emergencies,' JICA senior representative Takahiro Morita said...
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies are urged to adopt a framework on disaster risk reduction that will be proposed by the Philippines in the upcoming APEC Ministerial Meeting, reports the Manila Bulletin. 'Disaster risk reduction is common to Asia Pacific countries. We need to respond as one', said APEC 2015 National Organizing Council Undersecretary Ferdinand B. Cui Jr...
Congressmen in Metro Manila warn of the need to relocate some 100,000 informal settlers within waterways as an important step to reduce the impacts of floods, according to the Manila Bulletin...
The director of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture welcomed the new training opportunity which will 'promote sustainable agriculture in the midst of dire effects of climate change.' He added that 'SEARCA believes that the battle for climate change is won or lost in the grass roots level where localized interventions will play a big role...
The Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) will play a key role in the "Regional Forum on Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)" for the Philippine Agusan River Basin Collaborative Workshop on August 23...
Contrary to Filipinos, Japanese have learned their lesson from nature and are rebuilding their coastal cities to make them less vulnerable to future tsunamis and the inevitable rise in sea levels due to global warming...
'As Japan has demonstrated, there is no better remedy to a natural disaster than preparedness. We may always try to contain, avoid or mitigate their strength but the wrath of nature will always inflict societal and financial costs'...
Seventy rain gauges are being installed in the Philippines by The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in order to to improve the country’s flood forecasting system...
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